Has anyone noticed increased sensitivity to unnatural products after having made the switch to... - Page 2

[Jaxinator]

I've been the opposite. I started using natural body and cleaning products because I found out that the chemicals were making me sick. It was really bad, everytime I cleaned the house my husband would come home to find me on the couch with a migraine. Now that I've been using vinegar and baking soda and Dr Bronners, I have a higher tolerance for artificial frangrances. Going down the laundry aisle doesn't make me queasy, or give me a migraine.
I still can't stay in a room with a candle burning for long periods of time, but it's gotton so much more tolerable when I'm out and about, I don't have to worry as much.

[jkn]

Yep, I'm the same way. Strong colognes and perfumes, lotions or hairsprays make me cringe. I do find it easier though, as since I stopped using chemical products, we ended up using less, and finding it less necessary, so we have less things to cart around with us if we're going out.

[cyncyn]

Originally Posted by pampered_mom

I'm also amazed at how much I can smell other people's laundry from their dryer vents. Yuck.

This one gets me too, ruins a perfectly good day sitting out in my pesticide free yard. And when people spray weedkiller in the neighborhood it's worse.

BTDT with the hand me down clothes smelling of fabric softener, the ebay items that arrive reeking of febreze, avoiding the cleaning product aisle, etc. Hopefully we will eventually reach a point where the majority of earth's people are chemical free, so that we won't have to bring our own bedding every time we leave the house.

[kellybelly]

Yes, and it was really strange. I have always loved the smell of Baby Magic lotion, and have always had a bottle of it around since I was a kid. I haven't used it all over in a while, just for hands here and there. Tonight I was feeling like my skin was pretty dry so I slathered arms, legs, neck, and feet with the baby lotion. Soon after, I started feeling dizzy and lightheaded and really sick, and had to lay down. I can't imagine what else could have done that. I had to go get a shower and wash it off.

I pitched that lotion to the trash and promptly bought some Dr. Bronner's lotion (which is really nice btw).

[painefaria]

We went shopping at the outlets near the house and it was horrible. I couldn't even go in some of the stores. We went home after a short time because both DP and I had the beginnings of migraines
It kills me that my MIL uses those automatic spray airfresheners DP and I walk around the house and turn them off I don't know how long it takes her to figure out that we turned them off. When I use towels other places IL's, hotels, etc I can really tell the difference

[ASusan]

Originally Posted by Jaxinator

I've been the opposite. I started using natural body and cleaning products because I found out that the chemicals were making me sick. It was really bad, everytime I cleaned the house my husband would come home to find me on the couch with a migraine. Now that I've been using vinegar and baking soda and Dr Bronners, I have a higher tolerance for artificial frangrances. Going down the laundry aisle doesn't make me queasy, or give me a migraine.
I still can't stay in a room with a candle burning for long periods of time, but it's gotton so much more tolerable when I'm out and about, I don't have to worry as much.

This has been my experience. Although I may have become healthier in other ways, and perhaps that has helped my ability to deal with fragrances.

Originally Posted by painefaria

It kills me that my MIL uses those automatic spray airfresheners DP and I walk around the house and turn them off I don't know how long it takes her to figure out that we turned them off. When I use towels other places (IL's, hotels, etc I can really tell the difference )

Whenever we visit SIL, I go around putting air fresheners into deep parts of the closet, turning off the plug-in ones, even tossing some in the garbage. (She has SO many she would never notice, I've come to discover over the years. We visit 1-2 times a year, and the same one that I tucked into a closet would be there the next time I visited.) I'll take them out of the guest room we're in and put them into the adult son's bedroom.

And I don't use laundry detergent when I do laundry (for myself) at relatives' houses. I figure there is enough left-over in the tub for my single load, considering how much they all use.

[marimara]

It's getting to the point where eating fast food makes me sick, the smell of someones perfume is so nauseating I consider moving where I'm sitting, the smell of exhaust make me sick to my stomach. I question how good it is for me to have made myself even more sensitive than I was in the beginning.